Friday, January 31, 2014

Attention Undergraduate Student Writers: The Shenandoah University English Department invites submissions of original poetry and short stories for the annual S. Gordden Link Poetry and Bruce C. Souders Fiction Writing Contests. Contest prize are both $250. Winning manuscripts will be published in Avalon, the student literary and arts magazine. To Enter: Submit one typed copy of each entry to Jo Strader in the Arts & Sciences office, Henkel Hall 206, or via email at jstrader@su.edu. Each entry should identify the writer on only the cover sheet to ensure anonymity until judging is complete.Submission Deadline: for both writing contests is Friday, March 21, 2014The Rules: Poetry entries may consist of no more than five poems. Short stories may be no longer than 5,000 words. Submitted manuscripts must be unpublished in any other form.Students who submit manuscripts must be enrolled full-time (at least 12 credit hours) at Shenandoah during both semesters of the 2013-14 school year. The English faculty will judge all submissions and its decisions are final. The faculty reserves the right to make no award if no worthy manuscript is submitted.

A past winner, Foster is also doubly recognized for her creative writing this year. In addition to a poetry Honorable Mention, she is also awarded the Souders Fiction $250 Prize for Fiction for her short story "The Rule of Thirds."

The winners will be publicly recognized during the Shenandoah University Honor's Day Ceremony on Friday, May 11, from 1:00-3:00 in Stimpson Auditorium. The ceremony is open to the University community. Their work will also be published in the spring 2012 issue of Avalon, the Shenandoah University student literary and arts magazine. Hard copies of the winning entries are also available on the Writing Contest bulletin board next to Gregory 111.

Rules and next year's call for entries are in this blog's right column.

The winners will be publicly recognized during the Shenandoah University Honor's Day Ceremony on Friday, May 6, at 1:00 p.m., in the Stimpson auditorium. The ceremony is open to the University community.

The winning works will be published in the fall 2011 edition of Avalon, the SU student literary and arts magazine. Hard copies of the winning works are available on the Writing Contest bulletin board next to Gregory 111.

About the S. Gordden Link Poetry Prize

The poetry prize was endowed in memory of S. Gordden Link (1907- 1986), a former instructor and Writer-in-Residence at Shenandoah University. A poet of national reputation, his published poetry collections include Three Poems for Now; Personal Journal for Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Maybe; and Personal Journal. He won the American Poetry Society’s Lola Ridge Prize, the James Joyce Prize, and the Christopher Morley Memorial Prize.

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About the Bruce C. Souders Fiction Prize

The fiction prize is endowed in honor of Bruce C. Souders, professor emeritus of English and humanities at Shenandoah University. His published fiction and poetry collections include To a Student Dying Young and Fitting the Pieces Together. Dr. Souders taught English, humanities and philosophy at SU where he also chaired the English department. He was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is a past president of both the original Shenandoah Valley Writers Guild and the Poetry Society of Virginia, and a member of the Poetry Society of America and the Virginia Writers Club.